CHS Nurses Clinical Competence in Detecting Signs of PPD in Non-Native Speaking Immigrant Mothers'

Lund University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression, Postpartum

Treatments: Other: Education in clinical competence in detecting signs of postpartum depression in immigrant mothers

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04167709

2018/1063

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to develop, test and evaluate an educational intervention with the purpose to strengthen Child Health Services (CHS) Nurses clinical competence in detecting signs of postpartum depression in non-native-speaking immigrant mothers. The pilot study has a pre-post experimental design. Data are collected before and after the intervention. The differences in the values of the collected data are used to estimate the effect of the intervention.

Full description

To be eligible for the study the CHS nurse must perform screening of immigrant mothers for postpartum depression with help of an interpreter according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) method more than three times a year. The EPDS is a likert form scale with ten statements and is used in combination with a Clinical interview.

Approximately 40-45 CHS nurses will be enrolled in the pilot study. The number of nurses are calculated in comparison to two other published studies within the same context. The instruments Clinical Cultural Competence Training Questionnaire (CCCTQ) and General Self-Efficacy scale (GSE) will be used as primary outcomes measures. Data are collected before the first education day and after the second education day. Secondary outcomes are also collected in connection to the educational intervention and consists of reported yearly statistics; how many mothers were are offered screening, participated in screening, number of screenings preformed with help og an interpreter and number of mothers offered follow-up after participating in screening.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 67 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nurse specialized in Primary Healthcare Nursing or Pediatric Nursing
• Employed in the Child Health Services in the County Scania in Sweden
• Performing at minimum three screenings per year for postpartum depression, according to the EPDS-method, with help of an interpreter

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

Allocated CHS nurses

Experimental group

Description:

Primary and secondary baseline data are collected from the allocated CHS nurses before the study starts. The CHS nurses are then given the educational intervention and afterwards primary and secondary outcomes are collected again.

Treatment:

Other: Education in clinical competence in detecting signs of postpartum depression in immigrant mothers